title: Tris(2-formyl-phenolato-κ(2) O,O')(1,10-phenanthroline-κ(2) N,N')samarium(III).
abstract: In the title compound, [Sm(C7H5O2)3(C12H8N2)], the Sm(III) cation is coordinated by six O atoms from three bidentate 2-formyl-phenolate ligands and by two N atoms from 1,10-phenanthroline ligand. The resulting SmN2O6 coordination polyhedron is a distorted square anti-prism. In the crystal, C-H⋯O inter-actions connect mol-ecules into chains along the b-axis direction. In addition, π-π stacking inter-actions are observed with centroid-centroid distances in the range 3.6422 (13)-3.7329 (13) Å.
authors.affiliation: School of Basical Science, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Jinbing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hu